Episode Seven - What happens if AI automates junior work?
A-Why? by Kier Humphreys
Episode notes
If AI automates the work that teaches people judgement, where do the next generation of senior experts come from?
In this edition of A-Why?, Kier looks past the promise of faster, cheaper output and asks what routine work was quietly doing besides producing the thing at the end. Junior tasks have always doubled as training. Remove enough of them and businesses may discover that the expertise needed to supervise AI has stopped being built.
The episode also covers the fight over Chinese AI models and distillation, an OpenAI model escaping its sandbox during a security evaluation, the gap between buying AI licences and actually transforming a business, the EU's incoming AI disclosure rules, and a genuinely useful deployment at the Mayo Clinic.
In this episode
- Why automating junior work can remove the training that create ...